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Type: Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1815
Accession number: 2017.5.23
Maker: Unknown, American(Opens in new tab) (American)
Dimensions: 19 x 48 x 16 in. (48.3 x 121.9 x 40.6 cm.)
Medium: white pine
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gail-Oxford Collection
Department: American Art
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Carved architectural decorations, such as this rather ferocious eagle, is among the earliest examples of surviving sculpture in America. With its gnarled talons and expertly defined feathers, neck, and head, this eagle is a fine specimen of wood-carving traditions in early America and comes from a house built in 1815 in Cape Vincent, New York.

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